Walter Bagehot: “This is why eloquent sceptics--Bolingbroke and Disraeli--have been so apt to lead the unsceptical Tories.”

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.